Following its debut and subsequent selection as the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize winner at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio has been acquired by Sideshow and Janus Films for North American distribution rights, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Maura Delpero, an Italian filmmaker, made her feature directorial debut with her 2019 work Maternal, a film inspired by her experience aiding teenage mothers in Argentina. It premiered at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival and went on to win the Women in Motion Young Talent Award at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
Delpero’s new work, Vermiglio, is named after the village where the film takes place. Written, directed, and produced by Delpero, it loosely follows the director’s familial history in Italy. Set at the end of World War II, The film follows a rural family whose simple life is disrupted by a refugee soldier named Pietro who arrives in Vermiglio. Lucia, the eldest daughter of the family, falls in love with Pietro, and the family must navigate their future as they and the rest of the world attempt to move on from the tragedies of war.
Janus Films, a legacy American film distributor, teamed up with the recently formed Sideshow to purchase the North American distribution rights for the film. The deal was “negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with Anonymous Content’s Nick Shumaker and Charades’ Carole Baraton, on behalf of the filmmakers.”
In their three years of acquiring films, Sideshow has released arthouse films such as Bonello’s The Beast, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Venice Silver Lion winner Evil Does Not Exist, and are set to launch Leos Carax’s Cannes selection It’s Not Me at the 62nd New York Film Festival.
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